out of puff
基本解釋
- 氣喘訏訏
英漢例句
- He loves her but said to me, love me, want to forgive, but out of puff.
他愛著她卻對我說愛我，想原諒，卻力不從心。 - The New Labour model, which aimed at social justice paid for by the fruits of more or less free-market capitalism, ran out of puff roughly when the money did.
新工黨模式，旨在將資本主義近於自由的市場成就用於償付社會公正，儅其財力不支時，這個模式也走到盡頭了。 - Earlier this year, a study revealed that one in five of us has inherited 'unfitness genes' that mean no matter how often we pound the treadmill, we'll still be out of puff.
今年年初，一項研究表明，有1/5的人遺傳了“非健康基因”，這意味著無論我們多麼頻繁的鍛鍊，我們身躰仍然不夠好。 - The flame went out in a puff of gray smoke.
- The government used to be keen on overhauling education but it has run out of puff.
ECONOMIST: The state of Britain - The extravagantly far-right demagogue, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has run out of puff.
ECONOMIST: Boris Yeltsin’s unruly brood - The fight against corruption is also out of puff: it was made clear this week that self-exiled Bettino Craxi, a former prime minister hitherto wanted on several charges, would face none if he came home.
ECONOMIST: Unchanging Italy